The HNH Foundation announced today that it is changing its name to the New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation. “We have taken the opportunity to choose a new identity that is more descriptive of what we are about,” said foundation president and CEO Gail Garceau. “This new name better communicates who the foundation is and what […]
Jaime Hoebeke of the Manchester Health Department has been named the recipient of the 2018 Sandi Van Scoyoc Legacy Award by the New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation. Hoebeke is head of the department’s Neighborhood Health Division. The Legacy Award’s annual prize of $2500 is presented to a New Hampshire organization or individual who exemplifies […]
In our twentieth year of operation, our board unanimously agreed to fund a $96,000 emergency grant to support the 2017 Affordable Care Act enrollment effort. This was crucial because New Hampshire had lost 90% of the funding it had previously used to help people enroll. Over the years, our health insurance coverage work has been […]
Identifying Oral Health Resources and Promising Practices in Community-based, Non-traditional Settings An inventory and examination of the state’s community-based oral health programs with consideration of promising and best practice criteria for use by providers, policy-makers, program planners and consumers.
In recent years, a confluence of research has called attention to the importance of investments in early childhood, from home visiting programs that start during the prenatal period to high-quality preschool one or two years before kindergarten entry. A first line of research is from leading developmental theories in disparate disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, and […]
In 2014, the NH Children’s Health Foundation Board of Directors established the Sandi Van Scoyoc Legacy Award. As our founding President, the award honors her commitment to improving the health of New Hampshire’s children. The award recognizes a New Hampshire not-for-profit organization (or an individual who works for a non-profit) that demonstrates exemplary and aspirational […]
2016: A Year of Deep Collaboration and Deeper Impact This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the HNH Foundation. We are proud to continue and deepen our longstanding mission: to improve the health and wellness of New Hampshire’s population, with a focus on its most vulnerable children. In 2015, we expanded our funding priorities to […]
The HNH Foundation is a small foundation, and over the years, we have made pivotal decisions about how to best focus our work in support of our mission. 2015 was just such a year. We took a fresh look at our funding strategies, asking: How do we honor our deep commitments to oral health, access […]
New Hampshire has made great strides in oral health since the release of the Surgeon General’s seminal report in 2000, Oral Health in America. That report served to catalyze a range of stakeholders in New Hampshire who recognized the importance of optimal oral health as part of overall health, and together, they developed the state’s […]
The retirement of HNH Foundation’s founding President, Sandi Van Scoyoc, in the spring of 2014 marked the end of a 16- year era shaped largely by her vision and leadership. The Board of Trustees has used this milestone as an opportunity to look deeply at the Foundation’s successes, funding priorities and organizational structure, and to […]